PHILADELPHIA—It's one of President Trump's favorite talking points in promoting his administration's success: the record low rate of black unemployment. But on a recent sunny afternoon in Vernon Park in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, that victory seemed hollow.

(Try again, fail again, fail better, says Beckett ... connectedness and alienation in his work. Charlie is struggling with the meaning of Christmas and wonders if it merely amounts to selfishness and ...

“I like this school, but I kind of don’t,” says Chynah Perry, age 15, a thin girl with straight posture and stylish black ... a struggling middle school the charter chain took over in 2007. “That may ...

Yet the platitudes that frame many King holiday events often fail to mention the most radical aspects of ... say about issues not normally associated with civil rights that still resonate today, histo...

“Families are already struggling” in neighborhoods ... But they are kindred communities. In early April, each neighborhood suffered the nonfatal shooting of a young black child innocently walking in t...

Stories like his are far too common today, forty years after the nation’s prison boom began wreaking havoc in African-American communities ... and they’re really struggling.” One in four black childre...

…ultimately, the way a group reacts to allegations of misconduct may be a better indicator of its underlying dysfunction than the content of the allegations themselves. – Christopher Hamacher The BBC reported on September 26, 2016 about how sexual abuse in the FWBO (Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) – nowadays Triratna Buddhist Order (TBO) – happened under…

The Agriculture Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS) As a general rule, white farmers in the South are politically conservative. They fiercely oppose taxes, welfare, government regulation of any kind, and almost all non-military expenditures — except for federal agriculture subsidies.

Anthony Muhammad, PhD, is a much sought-after educational consultant. A practitioner for nearly twenty years, he has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, and principal and as a high school principal.

ABSTRACT. This article explores the current state of the social value of ubuntu.The notion of ubuntu seems to offer possibilities for nation building and social cohesion in post-Apartheid South Africa.However, this is contested by scholars who argue that the concept is vague and open to abuse.

Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are ...

A.T. Still University (ATSU) is the founding institution of osteopathic healthcare, established in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still.As a leading health sciences university, ATSU is comprised of two campuses (Kirksville, Mo., and Mesa, Ariz.) on more than 200 acres with six prestigious schools.

James Bond might not be a superhero, but he does dedicate his life to battling bad guys. Plus he has a codename: 007. Yeah, that means he’s just one guy in a league of 00s, so nothing unique—same as any Green Lantern in the intergalactic Green Lantern Corps.